HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2454, 26 October 1876, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Wellington, Wednesday. WASTE LANDS ADMINISTBATION BILL. The House resumed at 7.30 on the Wasto Lands Administration Bill, and after a good deal of discussion went into committee on tho bill. The rest of the sitting • was takon up with tho measure. Ultimately it was put through committee and reported with amendments, the third reading being fixed for 2.10 this day. The House resumed at 2.30 to-day.

PAPER JIANUFAOTUBE. In reply to Mr Burns, Mr o.C.Bowen said no bonus had been paid for tho manufacture of paper in the colony, Two notices for application had beon made, but applications had been made too late. He intimated, however, that the bonuses would be again put upon the supplementary estimates. 818 JULIUS VOGBl's MISSIONS. The report of the Public Accounts Committee on the expenses of Sir J, Vogel's two missions to Europe was brought up. It showed that the cost of one mission" was over £5,000, and the other over £3.000, exclusive of salary and other charges, which would make a total cost of about £12,500. THE WASTE LANDS BILL. In committee on tho Waste Lauds Administration Bill, the clauses providing that the ront for tho runs after 1880 should be fixed by the Waste Lands Board in the provincial districts of Canterterbury, were thrown out by 22 against 20. Tho bill was then road a third time and passed. BILLS DISCHARGED. Tho Lotteries and Art Union Bill and the Coroners' Act, 1867, Amendment.Bill wero discharged from the order paper. ' ' PUBLIC WOBES BILL. Tho House then went into committee on the Public Works Bill. Several verbal amendments wero made without discussion. Clauses 29 to 60 inclusive passed without amendment. Objection was raised to clause 70 by Mr Stevens in relation to dealiug with mortgages on land, and tho clause was postponed. On clause 80, as to the definition of roads, a division Was taken on the proposal to slrikeoutthe words "lands over which tbo right of way is acquired by public usage." The amendment was carried by 25 against 16. The debate was interrupted by 5,30,